Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-24
Proud Mrs. BrandIeth.

She was proud old woman. Many
West Indians are endowed with more
pride than good for them, aud she
was an instance. Perhaps it was the
blacks, or the cl mate. or living on an
island where there was no aristocracy
save that which was constituted by
money. She was very rich, there was
no doubt of that and he had a very
lovely daughter, there was also no
doubt of that a fair-haired girl, with
large dreamy eyes, and fair skin, and
lips that suggested pout, yet broke
into the most enchanting OF smiles now
and then-not very often either per-
haps the girl life had been lonely, as
an only ch Ids often is, and perhaps
she was half afraid of her mother. Her
happiest DAYS had been her school
days; she had been sent 10 England
for her education, and when she re-
turned TO the narrow circle, and the
still, uncompromising mother, who
since her husband death had managed
the estate herself, and was abs orbed in
the produce of sugar and the politics of
of government house, Alice felt lonely
and weary enough. Yet Mrs Brandleth
was very proud Of her beau tiful daugh-
ter, and waited serencly, convinced
that the day would com g when a wan
dering duke, or perhaps a stray prince
sent over to improve his knowledge
Of tropics, would fall in love tn her
and insist upon laying his name rank
and fortune at her feet Having this
conviction strong upon her. 1t was pro-
voking when one fine day Alice in
formed her, trembling enough, that
she engaged herself TO Hugh Trevor,
young surgeon who was vainly trying
TO get practice in the sland-for the
population was more inclined to trust
its broken bones and epidemics into the
hands OF older pract TONERS.
IF YOU dare to think of such n
thing she exclaimed. II II leave every
penny away from you, and what is
more, | will let you starve rather than
give YOU a shill ng;' after which com
Portable assurance, having m money
and no prospects. the pair prudcntly
got married on the sly, and trusted to
"luck'
Luck betrayed the trust and never
came near them or only luck of the
the worst description did; 50 they re-
allied al they had, and, after one I'M
availing appeal 10 Mrs. Brandleth, de-
termined to leave the West Indies and
seek for better for tunes in England.
Il should so like to see my old
friends again; yes DO let Us 20, Hugh,
dear; besides. we can make better
fight with poverty there than here"
Alice said, thinking wistfully of her
school days, and a little bitterly of the
manner in which her trop cal acquaint-
ance had cut her since her marriage.
, So with two hundred pounds in the
world they set out for England.
lit is no use trying in London,
Hugh said, eve should only b, lost in
the crowd and, allowed to starve
quietly. Wen 60 to some small sea-
side place, or country village, and set
up, and hope for the best. Unless there
is some one there before Us, patients
must come in time"-a reasonable sup
pos ton when one cons ders that, in the
long run, disease and death are never
inconstant long together anywhere.
Let Us 60 by the sea, then" plead
cd Alice SO they went to Drayton-on
Sea, small seaside place where fisher
folks abounded, and where there were
hills around, with here and there
houses scattered about, all inhabited by
the probable patients OF Hugh Trevor ;
future.
There was no surgeon at Drayton-on-
Sea before Hugh Trevor went there.
but railway came soon after they
settled there, and very soon after that
surgeon-an older man, with long
expcrence-came and pract ced more
for love than fees, for he was well off,
and 50 the bright future the Trevors
were seeking was still far away.
"Oh. Hugh! what shall we do?" poor
Alice said, looking up with troubled
eyes at her husband. Their second
child was just born. and their last bank
note just changed,
Never IN nd. my darling" he said
brayey, "better days will come yet. -
Shall I write to mamma" she ask
ed.
NO" he said; but she did. only to
have her letter remain unans severed.
H.
The first and most vivid memory of
anything that little Frank Trevor ever
had was the fishing village of Drayton-
on-Sea; of the grand hills guarding it
and the great gray sea bounding it. 1t
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